Telstra has just announced a first for Australia, they are offering a new way for their customers to purchase Google Play content including apps, games, movies, magazines and books. From today Telstra customers can purchase all this content by charging them to their Telstra mobile bill up to a value of $20 per transaction with a monthly limit of $100 which can be changed by calling Telstra, this also includes Telstra Pre-Paid customers provided of course they have the credit available.

As part of the launch Google and Telstra have teamed up to offer a range of popular games and apps at half price. The promotion runs until the 25th of December :

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That is kinda good. Especially for younger guys that may not have access to credit cards etc. Also that is works for prepaid double bonus. Glad to see the number 1 carrier getting on board. Lets hope Optus will follow suit.

http://espadav8.co.uk Andrew

Nice. Just tried it and it works nicely. Finally a use for all the excess credit

vijay alapati

I’m not sure if u can use the Credit for app purchase (But i wish).

http://espadav8.co.uk Andrew

Ah, lol, I didn’t mean that. I top up $30 a month and never use any of it, only the credit I get from the plan. This means I can use the extra $30 on basically free play store goods

Sceptic

Hardly free. You’re still paying for it in a way.

http://espadav8.co.uk Andrew

True, but normally my credit would just expire. I’m paying $30 to get 400MB of data and $200 of calls/texts. The fact that I also now have $30 to spend on Play ‘things’ is a bonus.

Nick Fletcher

hmm it works for my business account too. I wonder how many companies will be paying for their employees’ apps without realising.

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I like this idea! Esp seeing my bank keeps charging my International Conversion fees from Google Play purchases. They are only 1-2c but when they have all the sales my C/C statement looks god damn awful!

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I just tried this with my Telstra Pre-Paid account and was told it was not eligible. Can’t see how they would have allowed purchases with Pre-Paid credit anyway. You would essentially be getting the app for free in a way.

Happy!!!!!

I buy $30 dollars worth of credit and now I can spend it all every month on apps, basically we are just paying for google play credit.